The Arizona sentinel., 1887-03-12
NATURE IN RUINS.
An UnexpIored Region in the Wonderland
 of the Far West,

of the Far West,
 There is one part of the United States of which but little is known, although it is not far removed from To- calities which have been settled for a long time. This undiscovered country lies near our own doors. It borders upon our own State, and yet Colorado people are, as rule. as ignorant of it as are the inhabitants of the East.
 The country to which we refer is that strange region deeply cut with canyons, and, by repute, dry and bar ren, which constitutes the northeastern part of Arizona and the southeastern part of Utah. A few cattlemen have been in part of that portion of the country lying within the boundaries of Utah, but after going one hundred miles west of the Colorado or the New Mexico line it becomes so strange that we know the country only by rumor. This is particularly true of the part included within the boundaries of Arizona. Indians and canyons have combined to keep the white man out. The first drive him back, and the second would impede his progress into this strange region.
 The great Colorado river Of the West flows through canyons made famous by the Government report of the eX- plorations conducted by Major Powell. At some points the cliffs rise not per pendicularly, but in benches, to the height of more than a mile above the river. A mile on level ground ap- pears to be but short distance. But when we think of sitting near the edge of cliff and looking down into a narrow canyon, not for q mile only, but for more than 5000 feet. the very thought itself assumes the shape of a horror. But this is what may be done at the Grand canon of the Colorado river. The de- scent is not sheer, straight down, but it is sufficiently near the perpendicular to enable one who will dare approach the dizzy summit of the cliff to see the narrow band of silver which is the foaming river. as it appears from the summit of the gorge.
 Into this mighty, yawning canon the San Juan and the Little Colorado flow. They, too, have canons but little less fearful than that of the chief stream, and it is these and similar chasms which impede the exploration of the ,r -ni1 fa ho o desert region, and that the immigrant would find but little there to reward him for the pain and the toll of forcing his way into it. But rumors indicate that whatever may be its condition now it was once inhabited. Stories come of the discovery of immense and won derful ruins scattered over the plains or concealed in the canyons. Weknow of the ruins in the PlancOs canyon, of the, if possible, more wonderful ruins in the Chaco canyon of New Mexico, but if reports be true the grandest of all the ruins left by the original inhabitants of these mountains are to be found in the unknown region which we have de- scribed.
 Whoever may be seeking adventure, and who has the requisite time and money, may find a field in the canyon country which lies in North eastern Arizona, between the Rio San Juan and the Little Colorado. Whether he would find any ruins of mans work we do not know, but we are sure that the country itself would present the ap- pearance of nature in ruins.-DenUer ICOI ] ReD1LbIicn11